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Sencore's Captioning Series, Part 2 of 3.Monitoring video quality and closed captions within your network is the most ideal and proactive method of guaranteeing your network is delivering a quality viewing experience. Pinpointing issues as they arise allows you to fix problems before they affect your viewers.

Sencore's Captioning Series, Part 1 of 3.Closed-caption laws, standards and practices continue to evolve and new challenges are faced as professional broadcasters, system operators and content providers strive to deliver reliable captioning to all viewers on all devices.

As video content has expanded beyond traditional television and is streamed over the open internet to devices like Smart TVs, mobile phones, PCs, and tablets, it has become important to supplement online video with additional metadata based services normally provided with traditional live TV. The first step towards meeting the needs of hearing impaired viewers and recreating the familiar live TV experience online is to ensure the availability of closed caption subtitles on all viewing devices.